AIRCRAFT OYER SCANDINAVIA

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22919, 16 January 1940, Page 7

AIRCRAFT OYER SCANDINAVIA

Bombs Dropped On Swedish Island FIRING ON SOVIET MACHINES (Received January 15, 10 pm.) LONDON, January 15. Eight Russian aeroplanes are reported to have dropped bombs without causing casualties on the Swedish island of Kallaz, in the Haparanda archipelago, six miles southwest of Lulea. Russian letters were found on bomb fragments. The Swedish Foreign Office states that a snowstorm prevented identification of the aeroplanes. Norwegian anti-aircraft gunners fired on Russian bombers cjossing the Norwegian-Finnisb frontier.

SUBMARINE SINKS FINNISH VESSEL

(Received January 15, 8 pm.) HELSINKI, January 14. A Russian submarine sank the Finnish Government’s armed yacht Aurora, which, with another war vessel, was convoying merchantman from Turku to Stockholm, The other warship dropped depth charges and drove off a second submarine. The Finns claim to have bombed Russian vessels in the Gulf of Finland.

ENEMY ALIENS IN BRITAIN

486 INTERNED OUT OF \ 62,000 1 RUGBY, January 14. The Aliens Tribunals which have been engaged in considering cases of enemy aliens in Britain since October have now, with few exceptions, completed their tasks. As a result 436 Germans and 50 Austrians have been interned. These 486 people were placed by the tribunals in category A, which meant sending them to internment camps. Totals of 7199 Germans and 822 Austrians were placed in category B, which exempts them from internment but not from special restrictions. These include limitation of the freedom of the enemy alien to change his residence without receiving the approval of the police in advance, and prevent him" from travelling without a permit more than five miles from his registered address. In category C, which exempts both from internment and special restrictions, were placed 47,285 Germans and 6597 Austrians. The numbers interned are remarkably small compared with those in the last war, at the end of which nearly 30,000 enemy aliens were in internment camps. Where a tribunal was satisfied that the alien was a genuine refugee, it added to his certificate the words: “Refugee from Nazi oppression.” Special consideration was given to cases of British-bom women who by marriage to Germans or Austrians had acquired their husbands’ nationality. The total of 62,389 includes 48,233 refugees, of whom 120 were ordered to be interned, 5416 placed in category B, and 42,697 in category C. Of the 14,156 non-refugees 356 were ordered to be interned, 2605 were given B endorsements, and 11,185 placed in category C. Of these last more than 7000 are women and among the 7000 are 20QQ Britishborn women,